This figure applies to applications only – an allocation of 25,000 resettled refugees is included in the 2017 immigration plan.

The move comes following complaints from private sponsors with applications already in the system and families ready to move, that they have been left waiting for months and years for the paperwork to be processed.

Once the backlog is cleared, the target processing time will be 12 months.

As the anniversary of the arrival of the first Syrians to Canada went by in December 2016, the early newcomers without jobs began claiming via provincial social benefits channels instead of refugee-specific funds.

The reality is setting in concerning the difficulties of integrating into a new life and, most importantly, entering the workforce.

The government admitted in October that the number of Syrian refugee children arriving in the last year came as a surprise.

McCallum said the large number of children ‘was not completely anticipated’, with schools especially struggling to cope with the influx of new students.

Teachers in New Brunswick were overwhelmed by the sudden influx of Syrian refugee students in early 2016, leading to chaos in some classrooms, according to a report.

Schools were not prepared for new students who hadn’t been educated regularly for years, did not speak English and came from war-torn areas of the Middle East.

The result was a whirlwind of poor behaviour, bullying and problems surrounding gender roles as teachers were left to deal with a difficult adjustment phase often without the help of translators.

School staff said they had no idea how many students would be arriving meaning preparation was impossible and all teachers could do was react to the situation as it developed.

Extra funding to hire more staff eventually alleviated the problem.

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